| Nick Drake: Dreaming England Contributor(s): Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780231768 ISBN-13: 9781780231761 Publisher: Reaktion Books OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Reverb (Reaktion Books) |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.88" W x 8.24" (0.54 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake's music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician. Probing deeply into Drake's music for clues, Wiseman-Trowse finds hints of the English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime, but he also uncovers traces of blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism that hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, one far removed from parochial nostalgia. Wiseman-Trowse then looks at how Drake's music has been framed since his death, showing how Drake has been situated as a particular kind of English artist that integrates American counterculture, the English class system, and a nostalgic reimagining of the hippie era. An appealing story of folk music and English national identity, this book is essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan: - Nathan Wiseman-Trowse is a senior lecturer in popular culture at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Performing Class in British Popular Music. |